Perfect Thanks Michael :-) Andy Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:15:02PM +0100, Andy Shellam wrote: >> So, what I'm trying to do is use a primary key to generate invoice >> numbers such as "INV0000001", "INV0000002" etc. Obviously a sequence >> generates the increments, but when I try formatting it, it adds a space >> at the beginning of the number. > > The FM modifier suppresses padding spaces. > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-formatting.html#FUNCTIONS-FORMATTING-DATETIMEMOD-TABLE > > test=> SELECT 'INV' || to_char(123, 'FM0000000'); > ?column? > ------------ > INV0000123 > (1 row) >
